April 17, 2016
Gainesville’s Spring Gleaning Festival and Flea Market, hosted by the Repurpose Project, will be taking place next Saturday, April 23, from noon tip 4 p.m on The Repurpose Project’s grounds at 1920 NE 23rd Avenue. So while this weekend is coming to a close, it is never too early to start planning for next weekend.
The event will include live music on an outdoor stage, family-friendly games, interactive science groups, a puppet show, birdhouse gourd-making, a pop-up playground and more. Plus, there will be food from Satchel’s Pizza and Daily Green, as well as Swamphead and First Magnitude Beer, and a craft and flea market.
Local interactive environmental, art and science groups involved will include The Physics Bus, which is a science display featuring repurposed materials. Forage Farm aims to educate and inspire people to value heathy food, land and community by supporting the local food movement. Hands On Gainesville is a bicycle display that demonstrates the energy usage required for a verity of light bulbs. There will be plenty more groups and displays, as well.
The Repurpose Project is a non-profit community-based effort aimed at keeping useful resources out of landfills, and redirecting these items to the public for art and education. The effort aims to inspire creativity and help us to rethink what we throw away.
The purpose of the event is “to honor and respect the recourses already extracted from our planet so less ends up in the landfills.”
Local vendors will be at the event selling baby chicks and bunnies, elephant compost, handmade arts and crafts, natural body care and vintage goods.
For more information on the project and the event, check out repurposeproject.org.
